80 Quotes by Raja Bell

That was a major reason why I wanted to come to Phoenix. I'm so excited about the style of basketball that's played here and the atmosphere and commitment to winning.

We can play the same pace we want, but some of that has to do with them (the Wizards) just crashing the offensive glass. You can't run if you can't get a rebound.

We're all professional enough to know we need to build some momentum going into the playoffs, because we've been struggling.

We had a lot of guys knocking down shots. That's what happens when you have productivity across the board. It's hard for one guy to go cold. Everybody is going to have their moments of being hot.

We were going to try to engage him in a 1-on-1 battle and let him shoot as many times (as) he wanted and hope that the rest of his team won't be able to help, and that's what happened. In a series like this, you have to understand that and be professional enough to be able to deal with somebody who can score that much.

We didn't do our job defensively. You put yourself in position for something strange happening. That team, we're supposed to beat by 20.

We were able to keep the game at a pace that that rendered Yao and their other big men. If we hadn't pushed the pace, it might have been a different story, but we kept pushing and made them miss.

We understood that we had to come out and establish ourselves early and make sure they knew we were here to play. It's easy to let down going into the All-Star break, but we wanted to guard against that, and we did a good job.

This system is (tailored) to him. He's getting us into positions where he's stringing the defense out. He's always one step ahead of the defense.